The ads are really what get me. I’m fucking paying you and you still show me ads?!
I grew up with ads on cable, but I think it was back in the digg days someone said cable started that way too. You paid for cable for shows. Then the ads came. Streaming is almost exactly like cable now, except with the on demand part and how it’s over IP.
Yes
Ads were part of over the air but if you bought cable then you had none
Exactly right, it is the greediest model possible people will accept, ads+sub like cable TV and many popular streaming services became are the same garbage following the same enshittification path because art doesn’t exist in most TV and movies anymore, it’s just a commodity/product in a store.
You either die the hero or live long enough to become the villain…
I’m so tired of ads everywhere. I ad block at so many avenues. How do we crack an iPad to get rid of app ads? Is that possible?
It is also possible to block ads using some VPNs. But in general, if you want the freedom to modify things, you should not be using Apple products.
I typically don’t but I have an iPad from being in aviation and gave it to my little one. The app ForeFlight isn’t available on Android. They have a Garmin one but it just isn’t the same.
I use this on iOS and iPadOS. It isn’t perfect and needs tinkering and tweaking. But it does block ads systemwide in most apps (banner ads, not those pesky in game ads usually). And you can customise it by seeing what ad servers were called, and add them to the block list.
Pi-hole network is probably the easiest approcah
Wouldn’t an ad-blocking DNS work just as well?
That’s literally what a pi-hole is.
It really was nice while streaming lasted. Shame these companies continually allow greed to drive me back into the arms of piracy.
The open, loving arms of the 7 seas.
I remember when an older netflix ceo talked about never having ads on the platform, there was some high and mighty principle about it… But then money!
Never stopped pirating, feeling vindicated rn 💪🏴☠️
So far, BitTorrent hasn’t blocked anything for me.
Did you guys know that your local public Library has DVDs?
There’s also tons of movies and TV shows on the Internet Archive because there’s absolutely no content moderation there.
It will take you a lot of browsing because their search function sucks, but you will find a lot of things to watch.
Just do it soon because that’s going to come back to bite them in the ass.
Sadly, though, this may not be helpful for much longer.
Some films are beginning to completely forego physical release in favor of digital only, and we’re veering back towards “You need a dedicated set-top box for movies” territory with computers and game consoles trying to do away with disc drives.
Yeah I know. 😓
I just read LG has stopped manufacturing blueray players. Meaning, soon, the dvds/bluerays at your local library will be defunct :(
There are many other vendors that still make players.
Fair enough. Its not a great sign that this is likely to continue.
Thinking about it, i wonder how many vendors rely on big players like LG for parts.
You know, like in the phone market and car market for example. Vendors use parts and designs from other vendors all the time. Googles folding screen comes from samsung. In fact, samsung make parts for a ton of other manufacturers.
Vendors use parts and designs from other vendors all the time.
As another example, Apple still uses displays made by Samsung and cameras made by Sony for the iPhone.
Example
So not a real loss in this specific case.
Devil’s Advocate here, but I wonder if that could be a choice made by the creatives or the production company - like, “we hate advertising and don’t want it shown during our show, so that’s the kind of licence we will agree to”.
I think a lot of people would applaud that sentiment of refusing to have ads in their show.
Unfortunately the result would be that for noble, purity of the art, reasons they end up accidentally screwing people in your situation.
No idea if that’s plausible, but maybe?
Yeah, I feel like there is a lot at play even in terms of how the content is paid for. Maybe netflix only gets the ad money and not the creatives, in which case they don’t want their content on the ad version. Either way, the customer suffers.
Arrrrrrrr
Yar har fiddle de dee, a pirate life for me.
DVDs, people! DVDs and Blu-Rays!
I want a digital format that i can store locally. I think i’m forced to buy blu-rays and a blu-ray drive.
What’s this skull and cross bones flag doing here??? Oh, right. It’s mine. I fly it often…
I went back to sailing 6 months ago and dropped Netflix and Prime. I can get free shipping most anywhere now, but it’s usually slow to get here. When I tried to watch a show on Prime and got ads as frequently as basic cable I was done.
My original reason to get Prime was that I was building a PC and the no-fuss returns policy seemed like good insurance against faulty parts. Some sellers blame problems on the customer or otherwise drag their feet on returns. TBH I hardly watch Prime anymore, but the ads really are annoying. It’s like “Oh sorry, the pitted olives will have pits from now on.”
Cancel your subscription now.
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I may or may not have done this but even with a 1Gbps fiber connection sometimes it still buffers a lot. :(
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I’ve come to the conclusion that some people would be satisfied with an entertainment technology that does nothing but display ads. And it probably like 10% of the population.
This has existed for decades in the form of a game show called “The Price is Right”. It’s obscene that they break away to commercials when the show itself is just an endless parade of consumer products presented by beautiful humans.
Home Shopping Network (or whatever it’s called now) has always been popular.
It’s a licensing issue. They don’t have the rights to show every movie or show ad supported.
That somehow makes it less terrible?
It’s just facts. Explaining, not excusing, not defending. A statement of facts.
Is there a reason why people won’t buy blu rays?
Waiting 20 minutes through unskippable trailers, 4-5 different 30s logos, a 2-3 minute menu intro then a menu that takes 2-3 seconds to respond per arrow press?
Players can be expensive, but the most significant reason is probably having to get up and switch discs to watch something else. The vast majority of consumers have no idea how to rip a disc, nor the know-how required to set up a media server.
fair enough.
Because a single movie costs like 3 months of ad-tier Netflix.
They’re not on ad-tier because they’re flushed with cash…
I would rather buy the movie and own it than pay netflix money.
Most movies aren’t worth owning
There defiantly is.
What?
That is not a proper response to what I said.
sorry, im confused.
I think you meant ‘definitely’. Defiance is very different!
You’re not part of the majority
You mean the technology Sony just discontinued?
